Mr Butler is meeting the environmental group behind the court win, Save the Tarkine, among others and expects to make a draft decision on the project by Friday.

"The overriding pressure on me is to make sure I consider all of the information I'm required to consider in the legislation," the minister said.

"But subject to that overriding consideration that I do this as promptly as I can because I know that some certainty around this project, whatever view you take about the project, certainty around this project is important for north-west Tasmania."

Tasmania's Resources Minister wants a full decision before the Federal Government goes into caretaker mode before the election.

"The reason being they wanted to see the Tarkine before it was mined," she said.

Ms Jenkins built an ecotourism lodge at Meunna about five years ago to help protect the area from forestry and mining.

"Yes, Tony Burke did do a heritage listing on the Tarkine, however, it was only a small strip on the coast and unfortunately he left all the temperate rainforest off," she said.

"Not one stick of this rainforest has been protected."

Key electoral battleground

The Tarkine is part of the federal electorate of Braddon, which Labor holds by 7.5 per cent.

Pitched battles have been fought over Tasmania's wilderness areas, including the Franklin River campaign in the 80s which helped shaped today's conservation movement and set a new green agenda for the country.

There have been other bitter and drawn out conflicts.

In recent times, old foes have sat at the same table to thrash out a truce in the forests. But the peace deal is not supported by all and may yet unravel.

It's against this backdrop that a campaign has now stepped up in the Tarkine region, which recently was officially named using a moniker coined largely by conservationists in the 1990s.

The timing of the a court's rejection of Shree Minerals's approval again has inserted green issues centre-stage of a federal election campaign in Braddon.

The election will be contested by the incumbent Sid Sidebottom, former state Liberal MP Brett Whiteley and Greens candidate Melissa Houghton.

Mr Sidebottom is pro-mining.

"It's an industry that can grow and it has an extraordinary amount of environmental protections around it," he said.

Mr Whiteley agrees.

"I think there are plenty of opportunities for us to develop more mines in this area of north-west Tasmania around the Arthur Pieman but they've got to be judged on a case-by-case basis," he said.

Miners seek more support

That support is not enough for Mr Bould, who says the industry wants more guarantees from politicians.

"I don't think that we've seen any particular solid platforms from either of them and we haven't basically seen policy," he said.

He wants measures that would compel environmentalists to accept mining approvals when they are granted.

"I hope that as we move closer to the federal election and the state election in March next year that we see those guys start to stand up and say what needs to be said," he said.

Ms Jenkins is optimistic that mining and ecotourism may one day coexist happily.

"Maybe if they can come to some kind of agreement and have mining operations in the areas that have already previously had mining operations," she said.